A wall sconce is a type of lighting fixture that uses a wall for support, and directs light upwards. It does not have a base on the ground, but is instead attached to a wall. Wall sconces can either contain an electric lighting fixture, or contain stands for candles of all shapes and sizes. They are typically used in hallways or corridors to provide light to areas that may need it, but also add a decorative touch to any home.
Even though a wall sconce must be installed, they are very simple to add to any room. They are mounted to almost any wall, and sometimes may require minimal electrical work. Wall sconces that use candles only require mounting, which is a much simpler way to add a beautiful accent anywhere in your home.
Wall sconces work great for those who do not have much space, since you don’t need a table or floor space to place them. They fit directly on the wall almost anywhere in a home, but can still provide enough light for areas that need it. Wall sconces come in a variety of different styles and sizes, which makes it very easy to find one that will fit almost any décor. Wall sconces work great for either indoor or outdoor use, and can be installed in a number of different ways.
Wall sconces are great for those who are redecorating their home, but can also be placed even when not redecorating. They are much less expensive that buying wall lamps, and can be much easier to install. Wall sconces take up only a small amount of room, making it possible to hang up pictures and other decorations along with your lighting fixtures.
Wall sconces can be installed in a number of different rooms, including hallways, bathrooms, bedrooms, and even kitchens. You can use a wall sconce to set a certain mood in a room, no matter what mood you are looking for. You can keep your bathroom feeling peaceful with a wall sconce, or even bring some excitement to your bedroom. Because you can use either candles or light fixtures, you can find something that will work in almost any room in your home.
Because wall sconces can direct light in a number of different ways, it is easy to get enough light just by attaching one to your wall. They can be used to provide enough light to a dark hallway, or you may just want to add a little decorative touch to your boring wash room. No matter what you are looking for to improve in your home, wall sconces are the way to go. You will find wall sconces in a number of different colors, styles, and sizes, which makes it easy for almost anyone to find a wall sconce that will fit in with their personal décor.
September 7, 2008
Wall Sconces Are Unique And An Elegant Addition To Your Home Décor
Decorating your home with Tiffany lamps
Iridescent stained glass…beautiful designs…deep, rich colors…these are some of the ways to describe the ever popular Tiffany lamps that bring unique beauty into our homes. Tiffany lamps have had their very own style through the years. They attractively adorned homes during the seventies and still do the same today. These brightly colored lamps add an unexpected dimension to any décor.
Created and designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, these lamps can be used in any or every room of your home to create a warm and inviting atmosphere to your home. Unlike his father who was in the jewelry business, Louis Comfort Tiffany desired to bring beauty into the home and Tiffany lamps were the stunning result of his creativity. Tiffany loved the rich jewel colors of blood red and blues found in the Byzantium mosaics. He was able to find a way of adding the color to his glass (so it was actually in the glass) instead of having to paint it on at the end. He began by using discarded glass pieces from stained glass panels to create unique designs. The Tiffany lampshades were then created by fitting hand cut glass pieces into copper foil enclosures. Since copper is very strong, Tiffany was able to design unusual and beautiful shades for his lamps.
Tiffany ceiling lights are excellent for lighting up an entire room. Tiffany lamps come in all sizes as well. Lamps for the bedside table, desks, buffets, and even wall sconces are available. There are even styles of Tiffany billiard lights that conveniently hang above your billiard table and look classy at the same time. Tiffany floor lamps are perfect for those spaces that are smaller, but need a good light source. Tiffany chandeliers add instant elegance to any dining area. Wisteria blossoms, lily designs, the sun and moon, dragonflies and peacock feathers are designs often found in Tiffany lamps and can be matched to country décor or a more elegant home design. During the daylight hours, a Tiffany lamp serves as an ornamental piece, but at night it adds warmth and a bit of magic to your home. At night, a Tiffany lamp can reflect diamond shaped or coin shaped designs against your wall, adding a coziness to the room. Reading by a Tiffany lamp is wonderful since they have a bright, yet soft, light. Many Tiffany lamps have stylish lamp bases that are curved like a swan’s neck or remind you of a flower stem. Simpler lamp bases are often made fashioned with a mahogany bronze finish to further compliment the hues of greens, plum violet, merlot, and gold in many of the tiffany lampshades. Wrought iron is another stunning accent to some Tiffany lamps.
Tiffany lamps can be placed in a kitchen, a recreation room, a dining room, a bedroom, a living room or even a bathroom and each area will appear more inviting. Tiffany lamps add a touch of elegance and class to any home’s décor and can match just about any color scheme.
Table Lamps Can Make Your Home Decor Feel More Elegant
Just bought a new house and want to now live your dream of decorating it into the most beautiful house of your imagination? Or, its just that you now really want a new look! If yes, then you must plan the decoration step by step in such a manner that every nook and corner of your house compliments one another.
Perhaps, the first thing that you will need to decide upon is the color of the paint for your house. But, do you know that all colors need their share of lighting to liven up. Well, yes, this is a fact and table lamps are a cheap and magnificent way of livening up your abode. Many-a-times, impulsive buyers, to make their dream home come true, indulge in quick shopping and pick up table lamps from any store that they come across. Most of the times such buyers base purchases going only by the lamps' looks. However, for effective lighting, there are many other factors you need to consider other than the looks.
The first thing you must consider while buying a table lamp is that - whether it suits your taste and goes well with the shades of your house to make it vibrant and colorful. The lamps' size and shape also matter. The table lamp that you select must reflect your personality, ooze comfort, easy to operate and maintain, and most importantly suit your budget. You must also check the material of the table lamp and ensure that it suits the size of your house – it will be ridiculous to place a huge table lamp in the corner of a small house, where every nook and corner must be utilized effectively. You need to also pay attention to the placing of the table lamp. If it is made of glass or any other breakable material, keep it in safe place that is away from the reach of children, if there are any in your house. Depending on the purpose of the table lamp, its power must be chosen. For instance, for study purposes the lamp must be of minimum 60 watts, whereas for decorative purposes it can be much lower.
What To Consider When Decorating Your Home
Home decorating for many people is about designing a living space into a personalized environment where you feel at ease and at home. Home decorating is an wonderful way of taking an out dated space and transforming it into a bright, happy atmosphere. It is not only about designing, organizing your living space, painting and manual labor. It's about accessorizing your living space which makes home accents just as important, if not more so.
Decorating your home is something you can do with confidence. Decorating on a budget can be exciting if you approach it creatively. Decorating living space to living space, and acquiring a few pieces at a time makes decorating your home less stressful and takes the strain off your wallet. Decorating your living space should be a fun experience when you use your home decor to show your personal style and taste. This also assist in making your life at home more comfortable. Decorating is a exciting, creative way to show some of your interests and tastes, as well as those of your family.
It’s always best to plan ahead of time, before you actually start a home decorating project, whether large or little, it’s a good idea to understand what is involved and to think about how it will be completed. Before you engage in decorating your living space, you should envision exactly what you want people to experience once they walk into the living space. Most home interior design is varied in style, with a selection of traditional and contemporary furnishings, meshing new with the old. You should carefully choose furniture that suits your family and arranging the pieces in a way that coincide with the home decorating theme. Home decorating can involve a variety of different hues, fabrics, furniture, flooring and accessories. Once you researched such things as color and how it can be applied, room proportions and planning, you'll see yourself designing new ideas for your home decorating.
Design comes from within and is a reflection of your personality. Before you start to decorate, remember that most likely never is a living space decorated in one style. Most home interior design is assorted in style, with a blend of traditional and contemporary furnishings.
Accessories, are usually not something that is easily copied exactly, thus, more than anything else, accessories add personality to a living area. Accessories add character to your home. whether those accessories are art work or accent pillows, try accessories that show a interesting detail and stylish decor. By purchasing the most genuine accessories, you will be able to transform your living area design to look like it was decorated by a professional minus the high cost. To highlight your interior design display a variety of home accents like stuffed animals, artwork and photos in frames.
Home decorating is often seen as a desire however, it should be an exciting experience. It is of interest to anyone who wants their living space to look beautiful. Decorating your home is a memorable experience and one that will be cherished for many years to come.
Sprinkler Layout Design With Spray Patterns
So have you finally have given up on hand watering and want a in-ground system? Designing a sprinkler system may be easier than you think.
In this short tutorial you will learn how to create a simple garden plan and then estimate how much conduit and sprinkler heads you will need for your project.
Plotting your garden area
First, find a some graph paper. If you don't have any you can Google "printable graph paper" and prnt the example images. Depending on the size of your yard, establish the scale by referring to each square as 2 or more feet.
Next, you will want to measure and draw your house and patio areas. Be sure to include side walks and other obstructions like trees and garden borders as well.
Locating your water source
Once you have define these areas and your garden boundary you will need to locate your water source. For this DIY project we will be using your outside spigot as the water source. Locate these on your plan with an "X".
Choosing a sprinkler head
Now we will need to decide on what kind of sprinkler head to use. In this tutorial we have selected Rotors for our project. These are a rotating gear driven heads and are a great choice for large lawn areas.
Rotor heads silently spray a water stream out to an average distance of 20 feet. They will minimize the amount of conduit required for you project.
Creating spray templates
Next, we will create a spray template. On a separate peice of graph paper draw 4 circles with a diameter (width of the circle) measuring 40 feet. Then cut each circle out with a pair of scissors. (note: see our predrawn sprinkler templates to skip this step)
Then we need to cut one of the sprays in half and another in quarters for smaller areas. Since our Rotors allow adjustable spray angles we can keep certain areas dry by simply spraying outward.
Tracing your spray patterns
Start with areas like the edge of house, patios or edge of street and use the half circles. With the spray templates simply trace around them using a pencil.
Each spray pattern should overlap at least 30% to ensure no areas in your lawn or garden will become dry. Once all half circles are drawn, fill in middle areas with full sprays and quarter spays where needed.
Defining your watering zones
Lastly, we need to draw in the conduit and create watering zones. Starting at your spigot, draw a gradual curve from one head to the next, making sure your conduit never overlaps. Be sure to avoid tight turns in your design.
For this tutorial we will use 3 heads for each zone. By connecting a series of 3 heads together you are establishing one watering zone. Repeat this process to the remaining heads on your plan.
Checking your Psi and Gpm
You will also want to check your Psi and GPM levels. A call to your water company will give you a good idea of how good your water coverage will be.
Other methods include using a pressure guage (it easily attaches to your faucet) and a gallon bucket (For example if it takes 7 seconds to fill a gallon bucket then divided 60 by 7 .. or 8.6 GPM)
In Conclusion
We hope this tutorial has given you a better understanding about DIY Sprinkler Irrigation Design and Planning. You may have discivered that planning for a sprinkler system is much easier than you had originally thought.
Costa del Sol Hot Tubs - Are You Ready
Are you prepared to Take the plunge and purchase a Hot Tub Jacuzzi style Spa in Marbella Spain !
Now comes the interesting and perhaps exciting part...shopping, comparing, choosing and finally selecting.
You may have many questions to ask just fire away.
Here are just a few pointers to make sure that you don't buy a dog fish or a weng wang woo spa !!!!
First off is the shell of the Hot Tub made of a branded American Acrylic such as Lucite or Quarite.
If not, why not, as these two are acknowledged as making some of the best acrylic for Hot Tub Jacuzzi Spas in the world.
If the shell is made out of these materials it is your very own assurance that your choice of a Hot Tub will give you many years of beauty, pleasure, and satisfaction.
Always try the lipstick test on the shell and see if it just wipes off as it should? If it does not, then that gives you the clue that, the surface is slightly porous and as such will hold germs and bacteria.
If you can feel under the edge of the Acrylic you should do so and try and see if you can feel its strength or possible weakness, if it feels damp to touch or perhaps crumbly it gives you a clue that the shell is not properly cured. I personally would not buy a tub if the shell felt like that and I have seen many that fit that description.
It always pays to probe that little bit beneath the surface and just do not simply listen to the patter of some zombie like sales man or woman just repeating a script.
Second off try and buy a spa with Balboa Controls a company from Balboa in California one of the worlds leading manufacturers and well known for reliability and accessibility of spares even after 20 or more years.
Third off buy a spa which is made by a leading American or Western manufacturer preferably with decades of years of experience and therefore they will have had the time and experience to be able to design and construct models where the components naturally work well together.
Leading manufacturers those with many decades of experience have been able to adopt adapt and improve on their technically advanced systems in order to be able to allow performance from the pumps, heaters and blowers to give you the very best aqua flow to provide an excellent Hydro Massage.
Water Jets are placed scientifically in order to best deliver the flow of water to your body's pressure points, while still allowing you to control the intensity of the flow and pressure as required.
Thus a good well balanced properly designed and engineered product will lead to an outstanding hydrotherapy massage. One is able to enjoy a vigorous or perhaps soothing massage ' with the ability to be able to customize and modify your massage experience to suit your mood.
In summary buy the best spa you can afford but make sure that you do not buy a cheap eastern import or a dog fish hot tub. Look ot for proper branded acrylic and Balboa hot tub controls and always aim for a manufacturer who has been making this type of product for many years. A very good Acid test is to see if your hot tub dealer is on first name terms with the owners and directors of the suppliers. Much more difficult if they based are in China!!!!
